Sam Dodd is an assistant professor of art history and criticism at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the modern built environment, emphasizing the intersections between architecture and the visual arts, studies of material and popular culture, and the history of media as it relates to space and society. He has published widely on this work, including articles in Art Journal, Journal of Design History, Design Issues, and Journal of Architectural Education. He is completing his first monograph, All Eyes on Space: Television and the Architecture of Distant Sight, to be published with the University of Pittsburgh Press. While at Bard Graduate Center, Sam will be researching histories of brickmaking and brick building within the US, as part of an ongoing study into the material ecologies and economies of clay in American architecture.